New head appointed for OECD transfer pricing unit

Andrew Hickman

Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit

Centre for Tax Policy and Administration

Andrew Hickman has been appointed Head of the Transfer Pricing Unit of the Tax Treaties, Transfer Pricing and Financial Transactions Division within the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. He will take up duty in May 2014.

Andrew brings over 25 years of transfer pricing experience, most recently as partner with KPMG in London, where he participates in developing transfer pricing policy and works with major multinational clients and tax authorities on transfer pricing compliance, dispute resolution, and Advance Pricing Agreements. For the first half of his career, Andrew was a senior transfer pricing official at the UK tax authority. In that time he acted as Competent Authority in eliminating double taxation with treaty partners and introduced legislation for and managed the UK’s Advance Pricing Agreement programme. Andrew was UK delegate to Working Party 6 for five years in the early 1990s and helped to produce the 1995 update to the Transfer Pricing Guidelines.

Andrew Hickman holds a Doctorate Degree from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.